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Variation   (English)

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Definition (undergraduate level)

For a function f(x), the variation of f is the least upper bound of:
n
∑
i=1 
| f(xi) − f(xi−1) |

where we consider all possible partitions a=x0 < x1 < x2 < ... < xn = b.

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